Word: aestheticized
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There are other criticisms one could make from a literary point of view. Very few of Lessing's characters get off without one or another dehumanizing analysis of their personalities. Lessing has an annoying habit of randomly doing away with articles and pronouns. She occasionally writes a very bad sentence...
Most people will agree that the strip in an extremely functional solution to an environment of high-speed automobiles such as Las Vegas, that requires the heighted visibility of signs and rather low-profile buildings. But somehow Venturi mistakes an architecture useful for commercial purposes in Las Vegas as being...
Venturi's arguments in the rest of the book for the ordinary--as opposed to the heroic--in architecture as exemplified by the commercial buildings of the strip, are based on the belief that the strip, as well as places like Levittown, ultimately represent the aesthetic preferences of the middle...
Because of this attitude of acceptance--indeed glorification--of the existing system to strip development as a perfectly legitimate middle-class aesthetic, critics have dubbed Venturi the "Nixonite" of architecture. Yet however attractive he might make the strip appear in a book whose layout is so elaborate that the price...
The King of Marvin Gardens is a skeletal version of Five Easy Pieces robbed of its vital flesh and muscle fabric. It is a blood brother of the genre established with Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces. These films bore the double burden of avoiding Hollywood debris and finding...